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Attention: in order to improve our site performance, we decided to move the Newsfeefds from Reuters to the "News Service". Heather Nova Live At John Lennon TributeWashington Post HeadlinesA coalition of high-profile conservatives and tea party activists has signed a letter urging members of Congress to oppose a bipartisan Senate immigration bill, an attempt to increase public pressure just days before it faces an initial committee vote. Read full article >>
Read complete article Majorities of Americans believe that the Internal Revenue Service deliberately harassed conservative groups by targeting them for special scrutiny and say that the Obama administration is trying to cover up important details about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans last year. Read full article >>
Read complete article The Treasury Department was informed on three separate occasions that the Internal Revenue Service planned to disclose that it targeted conservative groups for scrutiny, and on one occasion, Treasury expressed concern about the form of the disclosure, a Treasury official said on Monday night. Read full article >>
Read complete article In a big win for those who advocate personal responsibility above heavy-handed government, the U.S. Park Service is expanding the rugged-individual approach to a service typically left to Uncle Sam: trash hauling. Read full article >>
Read complete article A leading antiabortion group plans to use Virginia’s 2013 statewide races as a strategic proving ground ahead of next year’s midterm elections, raising the stakes in a gubernatorial contest marked by heated debate over social issues. Read full article >>
Read complete article Cardinal Sean O’Malley skipped Boston College’s commencement Monday because of the involvement of Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who supports a bill in his country that would allow abortion. A few dozen protesters, some playing bagpipes, demonstrated at the college during the morning graduation ceremony. Kenny was addressing undergraduates and accepting an honorary degree from the Jesuit-run college. Read full article >>
Read complete article The Supreme Court said Monday that it will review whether a New York town council that starts most of its meetings with a Christian prayer violates the separation of church and state. The court decided 30 years ago, in a case involving the Nebraska legislature, that legislative meetings that open with a prayer do not violate the First Amendment’s prohibition of government-established religion as long as they do not advance a single faith. Read full article >>
Read complete article If only Lois Lerner were Lois Lane, Superman could soar in and save her, and perhaps her colleagues, from the angry crowd waiting on Capitol Hill. Lerner, director of exempt organizations for the Internal Revenue Service, is at the center of the IRS scandal about targeting conservative organizations for extra scrutiny. She’s scheduled to testify Wednesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Read full article >>
Read complete article In Tupelo, Miss., a town known for its laid-back style, J. Everett Dutschke stood out when he arrived in 2000. He was a martial arts instructor, yet he often wore pinstriped suits and cuff links in his off hours. He used a lot of multisyllabic words, which he over enunciated. The Southern accent of his earlier life in Texas and central Mississippi was gone. He told people he was an officer of Mensa, the organization for people with high IQs. Read full article >>
Read complete article Every immigrant leaving the United States through one of the 30 biggest airports would have to be fingerprinted by federal authorities under an immigration reform measure that won early committee approval in the Senate on Monday. Read full article >>
Read complete article EARLIER ON THE FIX: How President Obama got out of balance on leaks E.W. Jackson complicates Cuccinelli bid Read full article >>
Read complete article President Obama welcomed Burma’s president to the White House on Monday in the first such visit in nearly 50 years, hailing the Southeast Asian nation’s progress on democratic reforms but emphasizing that much work remains to be done. Read full article >>
Read complete article The Justice Department inspector general said Monday that the former U.S. attorney in Phoenix retaliated against the main whistleblower in a botched federal gun operation by leaking information to a television producer that was meant to harm the whistleblower’s credibility. Read full article >>
Read complete article * The White House knew about IRS targeting in April. * A top Republican wants the party to value women more. * The FBI is interested in Michele Bachmann's campaign. * Schweitzer is going to a mining company. Read full article >>
Read complete article President Obama plans to hold his first meeting with China's new president, Xi Jinping, early next month when the two leaders visit California. The meeting comes as the Obama administration has been urging the Chinese government to take a stronger stance against North Korea, whose young leader's bellicose rhetoric and provocations escalated this spring. Read full article >>
Read complete article A State Department staffer put on administrative leave after the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi tells the Daily Beast that he was scapegoated by top officials. "I had no involvement to any degree with decisions on security and the funding of security at our diplomatic mission in Benghazi," Raymond Maxwell said. Read full article >>
Read complete article The trio of controversies in Washington -- the IRS scandal, the Benghazi debate and the Justice Department secretly obtaining AP phone records -- have given the tea party new life, according to a new poll. Read full article >>
Read complete article New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's opponent is out with a new ad, and it might be a candidate for sneakiest ad of the year. At first glance, Democrat Barbara Buono's ad appears to be just a fun, cutesy new ad making light of her hard-to-pronounce last name -- comparing it to U2 s Bono and Sonny Bono. Read full article >>
Read complete article Fox News has responded to a Justice Department probe of reporter James Rosen, reported by the Washington Post, that involved tracking his movements, phone calls and e-mails. "We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter," Fox News executive vice president Michael Clemente said in a statement. "In fact, it is downright chilling. We will unequivocally defend his right to operate as a member of what up until now has always been a free press." Read full article >>
Read complete article Senior White House officials, including Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, learned last month about a review by the Treasury Department's inspector general into whether the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, but they did not inform President Obama, the White House said Monday. Read full article >>
Read complete article Fox News reacted with outrage Monday to the revelation that the Justice Department tried to criminalize the newsgathering activities of reporter James Rosen in 2009 “for simply doing his job.” “It is downright chilling,” Michael Clemente, executive vice president for news, said in a statement. “We will unequivocally defend his right to operate as a member of what up until now has always been a free press.” Read full article >>
Read complete article Crossroads GPS, the largest right-leaning advocacy group during the 2012 election cycle, believes it was one of the conservative groups the Internal Revenue Service targeted for special scrutiny as part of a campaign the agency apologized for earlier this month. Read full article >>
Read complete article Signaling that it intends to conduct an aggressive investigation into how the Internal Revenue Service targeted certain conservative-leaning groups, the Senate Finance Committee has asked the agency's outgoing acting commissioner to document any communications with top Obama administration officials about the unfolding scandal. Read full article >>
Read complete article Here's a stunning fact: The Obama Administration has prosecuted more government officials for leaking than all previous administrations combined. Combine that eye-popper with the Justice Department's secret culling of months of phone records from AP reporters and the surveillance -- there's really no other word for it -- of Fox News Channel's James Rosen and it's clear that the careful balance President Obama pledged to maintain between national security and the 1st Amendment appears to have gotten out of whack. Read full article >>
Read complete article A nominating convention helped put Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on the gubernatorial ballot. It might also sink his chance to win. Nominating conventions turn out the most committed and partisan members of the party. Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, a more moderate Republican, dropped out of the race for governor because he knew the convention would favor Cuccinelli. And at the convention this past weekend, Cuccinelli won -- but so did the Rev. E.W. Jackson, lieutenant governor candidate and a fiery conservative. Within hours, news organizations had dug up scores of controversial comments made by Jackson about abortion, homosexuality and the Democratic party. Among other things, he has compared Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan and referred to gays in the military as "sexually twisted." Read full article >>
Read complete article HOLYWOOD HEADLINES x 
Read complete article  "Young & Beautiful" director Francois Ozon talks to THR about his film and new details about Lars von Trier's "Nymphomaniac" are revealed. 
Read complete article  The French provocateur discusses his competition entry "Young & Beautiful," his difficult teenage years and why he doesn't care about comforting the audience. 
Read complete article  A producer for Lars von Trier's hotly anticipated two films tells THR of the sex scenes: "Above the waist it will be the star and the below the waist it will be the doubles.” 
Read complete article  Vincent Macaigne and Laetitia Dosch headline filmmaker Justine Triet's debut feature, which premiered in the Cannes ACID selection. 
Read complete article  Sam Kadi marks his directorial debut with the project about an Arab immigrant who arrives in NYC on Sept. 10, 2001 having a won a green card in the lottery. 
Read complete article Specials featuring A-list comedians will be pre-taped or live and screening this summer. 
Read complete article  The writer's "Fear of August" manuscript has prompted multiple agencies to chase her. 
Read complete article  The actress will portray the lead character's wife. 
Read complete article  Relativity Media will distribute the action movie about a fighter pilot who is recruited to test a new generation of aircraft amid international conflict. 
Read complete article "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" executive producer Catherine Winder also joins the feature. 
Read complete article  There will be either two or three recipients of the best animated feature Oscar. 
Read complete article  The "Blood Ties" premiere was attended by stars Clive Owen and Marion Cotillard. 
Read complete article  Ed Cunningham is launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund the final stages of physical production as well as post-production. 
Read complete article  "Traumatized critics exhale: I'm unable to do the Oscars again," last year's divisive host writes on Twitter. 
Read complete article  Czech master Jiri Menzel and Chinese director Ning Hao are among six filmmakers and critics joining Tom Hooper to choose the Golden Goblet award winner from 12 entries. 
Read complete article  James Franco's adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel about an impoverished Mississippi family premiered in the Un Certain Regard section. 
Read complete article  Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, an honorary citizen of Ischia, will join Straffi at Wednesday's official announcement in Cannes. 
Read complete article  The specialty label also has set Film Rites' Garrett Basch to produce the film based on the New York Times magazine feature. 
Read complete article  "The Iron Lady" producer Danian Jones teams with Pinewood Films, the facilities' production arm backed by the Isle of Man's media fund, to mount the project. 
Read complete article At a American Pavilion panel on film financing, participants agreed that shrewdly packaged project will attract equity that is looking for investments. 
Read complete article The producers will send XCOR Aerospace’s commercial spacecraft "The Lynx" into space to shoot exclusive footage for the film. 
Read complete article  “Summit's strength is its international distribution deals, and stronger overages from the entire Twilight series and Hunger Games,” Stifel Nicolaus analyst Ben Mogil wrote. 
Read complete article XLerator picked up U.S. rights to Paul Hough's feature, in which 80 people are forced to engage in a race to the death. 
Read complete article  The purchase of Abdellatif Kechiche’s lesbian tale follows the Canadian distributor, also picking up a second competition title, the Coen Brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis." 
Read complete article MOVIE REVIEWS The third installment of director Todd Phillips' phenomenally popular series finds Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms back in Vegas. Read complete article  French stage star Guillaume Gallienne turns sexual anguish and family friction into charming confessional comedy. Read complete article  Valeria Bruni Tedeschi once again gets personal as she directs, co-writes, and stars in her third film, premiering in competition at Cannes. Read complete article Vincent Macaigne and Laetitia Dosch headline filmmaker Justine Triet's debut feature, which premiered in the Cannes ACID selection. Read complete article  French filmmaker Edouard Deluc's feature debut adopts the Andean wine region as a scenic backdrop. Read complete article  Hong Kong superstars Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng reunite for their seventh big-screen collaboration in Johnnie To's comedy thriller, premiering in Cannes' Midnight Screenings. Read complete article  An elite police unit has 48 hours to transport a psychopath across Japan, dodging bounty hunters along the way, in Takashi Miike's latest, premiering in the Cannes Competition. Read complete article  The French screen queen Isabelle Huppert works hard for deadpan laughs in this artfully deconstructed crime comedy. Read complete article  Writer-director Yann Gonzalez' debut, which premiered out of competition in Cannes' Critic Week sidebar, feature stars Kate Moran, Eric Cantona and Beatrice Dalle. Read complete article  Claude Lanzmann’s previously unseen 1975 interview with the last Jewish Council Elder, Benjamin Murmelstein, is a unique historical document, screening out of competition at the fest. Read complete article  Kaveh Bakhtiari's feature-length debut, a Swiss-French co-production debuting in Directors' Fortnight at Cannes, documents the plight of illegal Iranian immigrants in Athens. Read complete article  Acclaimed Cambodian-French director Rithy Panh returns to the subject of the Khmer Rouge for this autobiographical documentary, premiering in the Un Certain Regard section at the fest. Read complete article  Singapore director Anthony Chen’s autobiographical debut feature overdoses on understatement. Read complete article  Guillaume Canet's drama, featuring Clive Owen, Mila Kunis and Marion Cotillard, is an overstuffed tale of family and crime in 1974 New York. Read complete article  Newcomer Amit Kumar makes a splash directing an artful genre piece set in a Mumbai downpour. Read complete article 
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